RHSA-2024:0154 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for openssl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols, as well as a full-strength general-purpose cryptography library.

Security Fix(es):

• openssl: Excessive time spent checking DH keys and parameters (CVE-2023-3446)
• OpenSSL: Excessive time spent checking DH q parameter value (CVE-2023-3817)
• openssl: Generating excessively long X9.42 DH keys or checking excessively long X9.42 DH keys or parameters may be very slow (CVE-2023-5678)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

• openssl: Excessive time spent checking DH q parameter value (JIRA:RHEL-14238)
• openssl: Excessive time spent checking DH keys and parameters (JIRA:RHEL-14244)
• openssl: Generating excessively long X9.42 DH keys or checking excessively long X9.42 DH keys or parameters may be very slow (JIRA:RHEL-16537)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

For the update to take effect, all services linked to the OpenSSL library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2224962 - CVE-2023-3446 openssl: Excessive time spent checking DH keys and parameters
• BZ - 2227852 - CVE-2023-3817 OpenSSL: Excessive time spent checking DH q parameter value
• BZ - 2248616 - CVE-2023-5678 openssl: Generating excessively long X9.42 DH keys or checking excessively long X9.42 DH keys or parameters may be very slow

CVEs

• CVE-2023-3446
• CVE-2023-3817
• CVE-2023-5678

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low